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 CHICHESTER'.

��1 HE diocese of Chichester now contains the whole county of Sussex, a number of pecuhars locally be- longing to the see of Canterbury having been annexed to it by an order in council dated 8th Aug. 1H45. The members of the chapter are a dean, precentor, chan- cellor, treasurer, the archdeacon of Chichester, the archdeacon of Lewes, 31 prebendaries, and some minor officers.

��BISHOPS OF SELSEY2.

Wilfred, having been a second time expelled from his see of York and Hexham in the year 68 1 by Ecgfrid king of Northumbria, wandered about from place to place, animated by a pious desire to propagate the Christian faith 3. At length he undertook the con- version of the South Saxons from idolatry, Aedilualch their king having been lately baptized in Mercia by the persuasion of Uulfhere the sovereign of that pro- vince^. From Aedilualch, Wilfred obtained the pe- ninsula of Selsey, then inhabited by eighty families ; and there he founded a monastery, and exercised all the functions and offices of a bishop \ He converted and baptized during the five years he I'esided there no less than two hundred and fifty persons^, whence he

' "Anno 514 Ella defunctus, quod dicitur Latine, Insula vituli

regnavit pro eo Cissa filius ejus, marini." Beda, lib. iv. c. 13.

de cujus nomine Cicestria, quain '' Ibid. ^ i]j[^

ipse fundavit, nomen sortita est." '' Ibid, et Flor. Wigorn.

Rog. Wendover. <> Beda, lib. iv. c. 13.

2 The isle of Seals, " Selseseu,

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